English terms
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Jmmt007 on January 11, 2012
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English literary terms final 2011
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need to know for final
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Understatement | opposite of exaggeration technique for developing irony/humor where one writes or says less than intended. ex- I only ate a little bit when they ate a whole pie. |
| Synecdoche | part as representative of whole "all hands on deck" |
| Apostrophe | (literary device) talking to something that wont talk back |
| Metonymy | A type of metaphor in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. "the white house declared." |
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